Leonard Fromm and Erik Fromm after he was named the state's Wooden Award winner during his senior year of high school in 2010.

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It's been a year since Erik Fromm's cellphone buzzed in the middle of the night, he rushed to the hospital and said goodbye to his father.

A year? Already? He shakes his head. He hasn't had time to let it sink in. The Butler senior captain has been on autopilot since the early morning hours of that Saturday last February, when myeloma and plasma cell leukemia took Leonard Fromm's life two days before his son's 21st birthday.

"I'm going to be honest - I still haven't had a chance to move on," Fromm said last week, slumped in a seat inside Hinkle Fieldhouse. "With basketball and school and everything, it ...